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FIU the laughingstock of college sports

Craig Angelos should be feeling pretty secure about now. The Owls AD knows no matter how many hires he has to make in his remaining years at FAU, none can top (bottom?) what his counterpart at FIU, Pete Garcia, did Wednesday.

I don’t care if Dennis Rodman replaces Mike Jarvis, Barry Bonds replaces John McCormack, Michael Vick replaces Howard Schnellenberger or John Daly replaces Angelo Sands. Nothing would be more embarrassing than an institution of higher learning hiring a train wreck like Isiah Thomas to coach its young men.

Thomas is the anti-Midas _ everything he has touched since concluding his Hall of Fame playing career has turned to crap. The Pacers went from a title contender to a team that could not get out of the first round. The Raptors…what did he do while with the Raptors? The CBA went bankrupt. The Knicks, well, the Knicks turned into the Clippers of the east.

And that’s just the start. More troubling is his character. Thomas has left a trail of embarrassing comments, immature acts, questionable decisions. Not to mention the sexual harassment suit brought upon him in New York and the disgusting details that came out or the incident at his home last year in which Thomas threw his teenage daughter under the bus, saying it was she who required treatment for accidental overdose.